Posted on 10/31/2020 9:50:00 AM PDT by rktman
People magazine has fiercely avoided reporting on the Trumps at all, but back at the end of August, they devoted two gushy pages to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Now, as Election Day is almost here, People published another gushy interview with Harris, and her husband Douglas Emhoff (who mostly sits quietly).
The headline was "RACING TO MAKE HISTORY: The vice presidential candidate and her husband open up about campaigning mid-pandemic and aiming to break the glass ceiling three times over: Electing America's first black, Indian-American woman as veep."
There's also a video on YouTube, so it's fascinating to see how People edits the questions, and the answers. There's no disclosure to the reader that it's been, well, "cleaned up." But it should be presumed. What's odd is when Fox News names are tossed in. Take this question from the magazine's political reporter Sandra Sobieraj Westfall:
Senator Harris, what does it say to you when someone like Georgia's Sen. David Perdue or Tucker Carlson mockingly mispronounces your name?
Except the video shows Westfall never actually mentioned Tucker Carlson:
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
You mean Chlamydia is incorrect?
John Edwards with boobs.
Nah. It’s kama-Lama-Ding-Dong.
On Thursday people will say “who?”.
“Brain Dead Biden and de Road Ho.”
Ok sorry Ill go with ho harris
I pronounce it CUM-ALA, LIKE IN CUMALA HO.
Look - I make it a point to not care about how a whore’s name get pronounced.
So it’s not commie-lah? :-)
She has pronounced it herself in the now banned way.
I always suffix Kummala Herass with “filthy dot Indian traitorous bitch”
Put me down as someone who doesn’t care now she spells her name.
Both she and her sister, Maya, were bestowed names that are drawn from Indian mythology (via Heavy).
The meaning of Kamala Devi
Kamala itself is a name that means "lotus" or "pale red" in Sanskrit (via Behind the Name). Kamala is another name of a well-known Hindu goddess, who is probably better known as Lakshmi. Lakshmi is the Hindu goddess of prosperity, good luck, and beauty, and she's often depicted with the lotus flower
Devi is a Hindu goddess as well. It is a Sanskrit word that means "goddess," but it is also the name of the Hindu mother goddess. Devi is considered to encompass womanhood completely, and is a nurturing force and the protector of villages (via Smithsonian). However, she does have a fierce side, and is involved in not only creating worlds, but destroying them as well. - https://www.thelist.com/235714/the-surprising-meaning-of-kamala-harris-name/
Well they sure picked the wrong name in this instance. :-)
Enjoy the 15 minutes! They’ll be back to their regularly scheduled softball questions soon enough.
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